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Name: Zeke Thomas Position: Running back Height/weight: 6-0, 195 High school: Tavares 247Sports.com star rating: None 247Sports.com national ranking: NR 247Sports.com position ranking: NR 247Sports.com state ranking: NR The Buzz: Undecided. Thomas is another player in exile in Lake County, where football players have a tough time getting coaches to come down 441 past Leesburg. A standout student, Thomas also had a stellar year on the football field with 1,417 yards rushing on 178 carries, an impressive 8 yards per carry, and 21 touchdowns. Has applied to Penn State and NYU and if accepted, will go academic route. Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting...

Victor Zelman's retirement was prefaced with these words:
"I don't want to be a rich widow in New York; you have to stop working 26 hours a day."
So, at 52 years old, Victor Zelman swapped the Manhattan city skyline in favor of a rural...

The University of Florida hired Cornell Provost Kent Fuchs as its 12th president on Wednesday.
There were no protesters. No screaming matches. No idle threats.
No naked attempt to undercut the public and open process.
In short, it was a very...

Cornell University Provost Kent Fuchs was chosen as the next president of the University of Florida on Wednesday by the school's board of trustees.
"Dr. Fuchs brings to the University of Florida all of the important qualities we have been seeking in...

The University of Florida's Presidential Search Committee has narrowed its list of finalists to three, all from out-of-state, with the president-elect expected to be named Wednesday.
On Monday, the search committee selected as finalists Cornell...

The Sunday morning guest list:
"Fox News Sunday" looks at the U.S. Supreme Court and gay marriage at 10 a.m. on WOFL-Channel 35. The guests are Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Ted Olson, former solicitor general and co-counsel...

Florida had the worst voter lines in the country in 2012, and a lack of resources at some precincts contributed to those long waits to vote, studies from the U.S. General Accounting Office and a New York think tank revealed.The GAO study surveyed...

A new study shows that having casual sex could be good for a person's self-esteem and general well being, but that's only if the person involved has positive feelings toward non-committal sex, according to Refinery 29.
The study, recently...

Seminole County is about to enter the big leagues of youth sports — joining a multibillion-dollar industry that caters to a growing army of families who travel across the country to watch their kids compete in sports tournaments.
The county's planned...

A Sunday morning show, "Meet the Press," will become a Sunday morning topic this weekend.
David Gregory is leaving NBC after two decades and being replaced on "Meet the Press" by Chuck Todd on Sept. 7. Andrea Mitchell fills in this...

Activist Alan Bounville will soon travel from his New York City home to give a talk at Rollins College.
It's not a long trip, a few hours by plane.
That's nothing for Bounville. The former Orlando resident spent two years walking more than 6,000 miles...

Last week, my high school junior and I ventured onto two campuses for his very first college tours.
It was eye-opening on many levels. For my son, it took college from some theoretical idea to reality. That is a good thing.
So my main tip for...

My son and I have been on a few college tours now, (four after Monday, when we tour NYU!), and they all seem to be basically the same: Student ambassadors guiding the potential students and their parents around campus, pointing out key buildings while...

Carrie Fisher has reigned over an empire for more than three decades. As a 19-year-old, she rocketed to fame playing Princess Leia, a regal rebel spy with a distinctive hairstyle, in the original "Star Wars" film of 1977. Two sequels and one...

Winter Park's Deirdre Macnab regularly travels across Florida to talk to groups about her organization's mission. Sometimes she dresses as Susan B. Anthony, the fearless leader of America's women's suffrage movement.
The costume is a good fit for Macnab,...

Among the hundreds of performances at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August was the Leonard Bernstein musical "Candide," performed by Janine Papin's students from Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park.The show was the school's...

Michael Marinaccio and George Wallace, the team who run the Orlando Fringe Festival, this month attended the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — and returned with a stronger global outlook.The Orlando Fringe team attended the debut World Fringe Congress with...

Whenever JoJo Ramos visits his "meemaw," he never forgets to ask for "bendición," a Spanish blessing, in his Appalachian-Florida dialect before crossing into the heart of her home in Belle Glade.He calls himself a...